DJ, producer and bandleader Louie Vega knows something about partnerships.
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Additionally, she remains a composer, arranger and bandleader of considerable resources.
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He's a singer, arranger, writer, bandleader, producer, pianist and an entrepreneur.
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His songwriting collaborator and onstage bandleader is Lukas Nelson, Willie's son.
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So his talents as a bandleader should come as no surprise.
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Gardner's second short-lived marriage was to bandleader Artie Shaw in 1945.
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Once a rapper, then a pop musician, now a funk singer/bandleader.
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"Whatcha smokin', Jeannie?" the bandleader, Sean Kershaw, asked from the meager stage.
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" —Michael Arenella, bandleader "This is an original World War One officer's uniform.
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He became prolific as a bandleader, too, releasing three albums in 1965 alone.
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As a bandleader, he mentored some of the biggest names in rock history.
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The bandleader was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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J.P. To be a jazz musician these days is to be a bandleader.
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Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903-1983) was an American jazz bandleader, composer and pianist.
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Though Jensen is the nominal bandleader for the gigs on Wednesday and Jan.
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But Mr. Glasper, an outspoken keyboardist and bandleader, has become the movement's figurehead.
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This documentary looks at the many sides of the innovative trumpeter and bandleader.
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DAVID VIRELLES "Gnosis" (ECM) Mr. Virelles here plays pianist, bandleader, scholar and student.
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This documentary looks at the many sides of the innovative trumpeter and bandleader.
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You can hear how delighted he was to have proven himself a magisterial bandleader.
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The bandleader, Le Sony'r Ra, who was born Herman Poole Blount died that year.
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" He added, "He was a virtuoso instrumentalist, a brilliant bandleader, and an electrifying performer.
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From the courtyard Mr. Jackson introduced Dr. King to Ben Branch, a local bandleader.
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On the night I went, the bandleader entered the room and greeted every person.
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A bandleader — a Hex, or witch — led them in a kind of feral ecstasy.
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Below are 11 memorable recordings, from his work as an accompanist and a bandleader.
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He was the new town's teacher, bandleader and first mayor, as well as its priest.
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Zappa, a celebrated bandleader and composer, died in 1993 at age 52 from prostate cancer.
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He's also a shrewd bandleader with a disciplined crew, typically including the saxophonist Justin Robinson.
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An earlier version of this review misspelled the surname of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra's bandleader.
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But the art rock oddities of Blackstar [on which McCaslin was bandleader] are taking over.
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The composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue released an album adapted from a multimedia theatrical production.
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That's largely thanks to Mr. Morrison's co-bandleader, the Hammond B-3 virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco.
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The 276-song album features a song for each year of bandleader Stephin Merritt's life.
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The 50-song album features a song for each year of bandleader Stephin Merritt's life.
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By night, Mr. Goldman is the bandleader for the Latin soul and boogaloo group Spanglish Fly.
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Take me through a day working on the show, as the bandleader and the music director.
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Now, four decades later, Mr. Vai has returned to Europe for his latest tour as bandleader.
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But it was not until the 22014s that he emerged as a bandleader of international renown.
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The song so lifted the spirit of the crowd that the bandleader started it up again.
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He'd been a strict bandleader and had often hurt my feelings by singling out my incompetence.
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It is her strongest statement as a bandleader and her most dauntless effort as a pianist.
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Mr. Palmieri, the indomitable Latin-jazz bandleader, pianist and composer, will turn 80 on Dec. 15.
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Once, some bandleader fell to his knees to begin some barely intelligible monologue atop the caterwaul.
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His 50-year career saw him play the role of bandleader, studio artist, and songwriter for others.
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Mike Shinoda, the event's host and Linkin Park's bandleader, fully embraced the celebratory aspect of the night.
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Though he never became a star as a bandleader, he was hardly limited by his academic duties.
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Rickey Minor, in case you don't know, was the bandleader for Jay Leno at the Tonight Show.
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Al Franken, bandleader of Letterman's former show Paul Schaffer and last year's Twain Prize honoree, Bill Murray.
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"The Declaration of Musical Independence" — his most prominent turn as a bandleader in years, due out Sept.
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But on Monday, Colbert managed to get a swipe in with help from his bandleader, Jon Batiste.
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An exacting bandleader, Salvador was also about a decade older than most of his bandmates in Abolition.
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Ironically, Earth, Wind and Fire's bandleader, Maurice White, had a zero-tolerance policy on drug use. 5.
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But he's also kept an equally rich (if far quieter) career track running alongside as a bandleader.
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"The Afterlife album took ages to evolve out of the ZU goo," Bandleader Nic Oogjes explained via email.
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Ball played the wife of bandleader Ricky Ricardo, who was portrayed by her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz.
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It so happened that the girl I was dancing with, her father was Woody Herman, a famous bandleader.
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Alongside his Tonight Show bandleader, Fallon attempts to light up the holiday season with Christmas lights — and fails.
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" The following week, he told his bandleader, "We're gonna have Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin sitting over here. . . .
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Today and Wednesday, his son, the drummer and bandleader T.S. Monk, will perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.
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He joined the prominent Cuban bandleader Machito, then — after a stint in the Navy — formed his own band.
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In 1955 he was the most prominent American bandleader to release an all-percussion album, initiating a trend.
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Mr. Reed, a judicious drummer and bandleader from Chicago, naturally fit into that rubric with his current band.
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Rostam and bandleader Ezra Koenig decided that Rostam needn't be in the band to continue their musical relationship.
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"Let's do 'China Boy'!" the bandleader announced from his chair, and the band started up the 1922 tune.
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The jazz musician also served as trumpet player and bandleader for her album Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett.
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Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, was O'Brien's bandleader from 85033 and 2010.
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The Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat turned it into a hit in 1947, and Tito Puente recorded it as well.
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He also performs in clubs around New York as a jazz singer and bandleader with the Les Grant 5.
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The result of this self-editing is that greater emphasis falls on Mr. Martin's choices as a producer-bandleader.
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The bandleader typically writes out the basic structure of each piece, but "that's just the first step," he said.
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Between the World Saxophone Quartet and his own groups, Mr. Bluiett recorded close to 50 albums as a bandleader.
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As a sideman, and especially as a bandleader, Mr. Yaged was a fixture in New York City and vicinity.
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Ms. Peacock played around Europe often, with her own bands and with Bill Bruford, the star drummer and bandleader.
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In Memphis, he played with Howlin' Wolf, the blues pianist and singer Memphis Slim and the bandleader Tuff Green.
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By the time he became a bandleader again, he had changed his name (to Alan Michael) and his style.
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She met him when he was a swaggering St. Louis bandleader and she was 17-year-old Anna Mae.
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As the old and new guards faced each other, impassive under their bearskin hats, the bandleader raised his baton.
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The film highlights the collaborative energy onstage, never treating Timberlake as a solo act but rather as a bandleader.
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A few weeks ago, I watched God Help the Girl, the 2014 musical by Belle and Sebastian bandleader Stuart Murdoch.
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She has also started to make her mark as a bandleader and composer, with albums on Mr. Douglas's Greenleaf Music.
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For many years he has held down the drum chair for Ambrose Akinmusire, probably jazz's most influential bandleader under 40.
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James Reese Europe was arguably the most important American bandleader in the years just before jazz became a national craze.
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But Mr. Tyner's legacy must also include his sensitive playing on ballads, and his strengths as a composer and bandleader.
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The bandleader of this five-piece Southern roots-rock outfit is just 303, but his music reveals an old soul.
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A friend, jazz bandleader Maria Schneider, had suggested he check out the night's headliner, a quartet led by saxophonist Donny McCaslin.
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His father, a pianist and bandleader, is the president of Glenn Pearson Productions, a music and entertainment business in Chevy Chase.
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His father, a musician and bandleader, died when he was 19783, and he was raised by his mother, a ballet dancer.
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But he hasn't totally cracked the code as a bandleader, a role that upstart musicians these days are expected to fill.
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Jon Batiste, the musician and bandleader for "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," began the event by improvising on a melodica.
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Particularly since the 2016 release of "Fe," a remarkable small-group album, he has threatened to become a great bandleader himself.
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After studying with Hymie Shertzer, the lead alto with Benny Goodman, he was hired at 17 by the bandleader Charlie Spivak.
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Brooklyn duo, SHREDDER, shared an agitated and combusting new mix on bandleader Chris Video's label, Tropical Goth records, premiering today on THUMP.
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After a few years in the trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's band, Cook is starting to make his name as a bandleader.
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"We asked [Vai] for the craziest space solo possible, which wasn't hard for him," bandleader Anthony Gonazalez explained in the press release.
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But, in his father's last years of touring, Sinatra Jr. was the music legend's bandleader and the two had a closer relationship.
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You could blame it on McCraven's coherent taste as a bandleader, or you could take could come to a more metaphysical understanding.
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The song, written with Mr. Brown's bandleader, Alfred Ellis, was released in August 1968, several months after the assassination of Dr. King.
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"Ima Ima" is the new album from this impressive violinist and bandleader, and her fourth with the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble.
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Mr. Buatta would tell you that his father, a bandleader, could never figure out just what his son did for a living.
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His appearances as a bandleader come infrequently, but his original music is packed with dynamic contrast and a wide range of motion.
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His own recordings as a bandleader have revealed him to be not only a stylish improviser, but also a composer worth watching.
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Ventura, a singer and bandleader who served as the mayor of Santo Domingo for four years, first released this song in 1972.
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In this episode, bandleader Ketch Secor tells the story of how they made "Dearly Departed Friend," one of the songs from that record.
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But the idea has always been to have fun, and the role I play as the bandleader is more to teach them things.
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New Orleans bandleader Claude Bryant will certainly think twice the next time someone asks to take the mic during one of his sets.
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Two top musical groups had already pulled out, with bandleader Roberto Martino saying his group, T-Vice, might not take part at all.
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The visionary saxophonist and bandleader hoped that having one in his home studio would help him rethink his approach to harmony and texture.
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Decked out in a bright red ensemble with intricate detailing depicting barbed wire and plantlife, YG looks pretty good as a mariachi bandleader.
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There were haunting organs, a flute solo and crooning of "I'll suck your toe, nobody has to know" from Craig Harris, the bandleader.
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Best known for his work in Ambrose Akinmusire's groups, Harris, a pianist, will soon be on the jazz radar as a bandleader himself.
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On Saturday, he heads a 10-piece ensemble in a tribute to the military bandleader and African-American musical pioneer James Reese Europe.
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The two remaining shows will star indie rock favorite St. Vincent and "The Late Show" bandleader Jon Batiste; and classical ensemble The Knights.
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They formed an instrumental duo, the Ukulele Rascals, which joined the bandleader Ray Kinney on a coast-to-coast mainland tour in 1949.
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Carrington's new album, "Waiting Game," pulls together the various aspects of her identity: as organizer, educator, social justice advocate, drummer, composer and bandleader.
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She might interrupt her own songs with electronic noises, or stop and start her musicians over and over, mimicking an old-school bandleader.
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And although that mainly means she's singer-writer-bandleader enough to make it seem so, please allow me to believe there's more to it.
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They were famously joined by Bob Dylan, their one-time bandleader, full-time benefactor and friend, who lived not far away on Camelot Road.
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For this shift as a bandleader, he features first-rate talent: the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the pianist Harold Mabern and the bassist Bob Cranshaw.
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Using Tonight Show bandleader Questlove as their fill-in guest, the two took their seats in front of a drop-down New York skyline.
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Instead, Sacred delivers the band's trademark bouncy punk-meets-doom vibe, complete with bluesy solos, thundering drums, and bandleader Scott 'Wino' Weinrich's drawling voice.
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White's brother and bandmate, bassist Verdine White, confirmed that the legendary bandleader died late Wednesday or early Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Thursday about Janka Nabay, a singer, songwriter and bandleader from Sierra Leone, misstated the name of the country's lingua franca.
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Ball was a 28-year-old contract player with a string of forgettable films, and Desi, at 1991, a dashing, Cuban-born nightclub bandleader.
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Mr. Clinton brought in Mr. Worrell as the keyboardist, bandleader and arranger, starting with the debut albums both Funkadelic and Parliament released in 1970.
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Basie, the rhythmically spring-loaded pianist and bandleader, had more than a star soloist in Young, who changed the language of the tenor saxophone.
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It was not a major commercial success, but it cemented Mr. Watrous's reputation as a composer and bandleader as well as a virtuoso instrumentalist.
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It's hard not to hear echoes of another Argentine composer, the pianist and bandleader Guillermo Klein, but Mr. Giraudo's music has its own character.
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The house bandleader and cuatrista (player of a small Puerto Rican guitar), Christian Nieves, had just come back from performing "Despacito" at the Grammys.
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At this concert, the founding bandleader Dorado Schmitt will pass the All-Stars' mantle to his sons Samson and Amati, who are both guitarists.
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He has also made five albums as a bandleader on other labels, including one on which he's joined by the bass luminary Ron Carter.
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The festival's 2019 artist-in-residence, the genre-agnostic singer, bassist and bandleader Meshell Ndegeocello, will perform during both the full and half marathons.
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Her 210 album, "Mannequins," arrived without much fanfare, but its coiled, seething compositions and tight execution announced Gentile as a young bandleader to watch.
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His songs, most written with his producer and bandleader Dave Bartholomew, were often concise sketches of romantic strife involving heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness and spite.
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"I don't know if it's about preserving the past," said Steven Bernstein, a trumpeter and bandleader who has worked with Mr. Willner for decades.
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As it happens, Mr. Glover's shirtlessness, slacks and neck chains evoke Fela Kuti, the Nigerian bandleader, activist, live-music marathoner and pioneer of Afrobeat.
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PARELES At just 21, the young vibraphonist Sasha Berliner has already started to make an impression as a bandleader on the New York scene.
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She doesn't tour often, and she has long preferred the scholarly remove of a composer's identity to the more public one of a bandleader.
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So after several years of recording pop standards with bandleader Nelson Riddle, she released an album of Mexican folk songs sung entirely in Spanish.
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Ever the trickster, Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue was many things: folk singer, songwriter, rock star, bandleader, protester, actor, ringmaster, caballero, hero, joker.
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Soon, Mia's practicality pushes Sebastian into touring with a hugely popular band, playing music he hates for a bandleader (John Legend) he considers a sellout.
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Even Jimmy Fallon makes an appearance, singing King George's '60s-inspired comic anthem "You'll Be Back" Miranda and The Roots bandleader Questlove produced the album.
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Eberly believed that baseball could be central to the town's identity; otherwise it would be known mainly as the birthplace of the bandleader Glenn Miller.
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So Molly the bandleader and Molly the character have a key virtue in common: they know what they want and know how to get it.
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It's the most accomplished statement Ms. Halvorson has made as a composer, her strongest turn as bandleader and a standout jazz release of the year.
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Mr. Weiss, 41, is now best known as a virtuosic, in-demand jazz drummer — he's also a seasoned tabla player — and an ambitious, imaginative bandleader.
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At 87, Mr. Amram is the last surviving bandleader from that trip, which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Earl Hines (known as Fatha).
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A 29-year-old pianist and bandleader of increasing renown, Sands is aligned with jazz's straight-ahead mainstream, but he's got an unbounded inquisitive instinct.
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The record features a few entrancing tunes recorded with Pharoah Sanders as a special guest, and it affirms DeFrancesco's versatility and sensitivity as a bandleader.
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During "Burn," the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease.
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Finally, Ray Phiri, the South African guitarist and anti-apartheid bandleader who came to international attention playing behind Paul Simon on "Graceland," died last week.
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Coltrane has released just one leadership album in the past decade, but he's kept a busy and diverse itinerary as a bandleader in live scenarios.
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Born William James Basie, this towering bandleader was known for melding jazz and blues in a way that made swing a driving force in music.
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One listener was Stevo Teodosievski, an ethnic Macedonian composer and accordionist, who went on to become her mentor, manager, bandleader and, in 22010, her husband.
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"Today's Doodle celebrates the world-renowned South African trumpeter, singer, bandleader, composer, and human rights advocate Hugh Masekela," a Google said in a blog post.
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The singer attended the religious ceremony for baby Sistilia, the daughter of her jazz bandleader Brian Newman and his wife, burlesque performer Angie Pontani, on Sunday.
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With the Jukebox tour, I get to use the verbal chops I developed on seventeen years of late night TV as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien.
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"Danke Schoen" by Wayne Newton (1963) From country to Bavarian, Campbell can be heard on 21-year-old Newton's cover of German bandleader Bert Kaempfert's tune.
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The Bay Area musician — who was the band's singer, songwriter and bandleader — battled throat and liver cancer for two years before passing away at age 74.
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At the start of the show, the host gets fellow Brit Gordon Ramsay to drive him and his bandleader Reggie to LAX to catch their flight.
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Then in 1955 he broke into the pop top 10 with "Ain't That a Shame," an original composition co-written with his longtime bandleader Dave Bartholomew.
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Somewhere in the mid 10s, he recruited bandleader, co-founder Sergio Mendoza (Calexico, Orkesta Mendoza) to work out the arrangements of what would become their debut.
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Trumpeter and bandleader Sheila Maurice-Grey comes to life in the second half, but she doesn't overrun things either—her deft solo flutters like a firefly.
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The honorees are the composer and bandleader Maria Schneider, the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, the pianist and vocalist Bob Dorough and the critic Stanley Crouch.
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Now 54, the singer, bandleader and occasional rapper and D.J. has traversed most corners of the pop musical universe over her nearly four-decade long career.
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As a bandleader, Melford finds a happy balance between assiduous precision and flagrant risk, and her quintet Snowy Egret's recent album was a highlight of 2018.
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As a bandleader, this 83-year-old National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master encourages his combo to embrace an open, freewheeling approach to post-bop.
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Mr. Russell, who died on Sunday at 19723, certainly had more visible and consequential moments in his career — as a songwriter, a bandleader and a singer.
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A musician by trade, I've managed to carve out a living on Martha's Vineyard as a bandleader, and my wife runs an after-school dance program.
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A bandleader, composer and educator, he was sought after by top musicians to record with them, drawn by his harmonic sophistication and feel for the blues.
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On his records, music by Thundercat — the stage name of bassist and bandleader Stephen Bruner — sounds like pop: experimental, but with tight arrangements and slick production.
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As The Tonight Show's bandleader, he's used to Fallon's usual tricks, so in addition to talking about the book he gamely participated in one of his bits.
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You might recognize him as Stephen Colbert's bandleader on The Late Show, but Jon Batiste is continuing to pursue his solo career with a new holiday album.
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Over the next 17 years, she became known as one of the most respected musicians in Los Angeles, though she had trouble finding acceptance as a bandleader.
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But he's also one of the great connectors in the history of New York jazz over the last few generations, just through his role as a bandleader.
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Weird Al Yankovic becomes the bandleader in the Season 5 premiere of this show hosted by Scott Aukerman, with guests including Kevin Bacon and the Lonely Island.
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Butterfield answered the question, "Can a white man play the blues?" not just with his own excellence but with his dedication to racial equality as a bandleader.
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In 2016, he released his 50th and final album as a bandleader, the two-disc "African Nubian Suite," which featured an orchestra-size iteration of African Rhythms.
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Despite having new music to promote, the prolific bandleader typically performs songs he first made famous while in the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather.
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But before long, the tempo started to stutter and swim, and the drummer and bandleader Dan Weiss nudged the group toward a harsh and forbiddingly loud climax.
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A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, he's always stoked ambitions as a bandleader, too, and they're borne out with particular splendor in his big band.
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Vocalist Keith Morris and drummer Brian Migdol left the band, with bassist Chuck Dukowski and guitarist/bandleader Greg Ginn soldiering on, finding new members to record with.
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Crump is most recognized for his work alongside the pianist Vijay Iyer, but he is also a quietly industrious bandleader, with a range of his own projects.
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In the 1970s he was given the headdress that he wore on the cover of his debut album as a bandleader, "The Chief" (Rooster Blues), in 1980.
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With Secret Society, his 18-piece ensemble, the composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue makes music with a metallic and alkaline bite, often drawing on political inspirations.
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But Willis also led a distinguished — if less prominent — career as a bandleader, recording close to two dozen albums and assembling a thick book of original compositions.
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Mr. Hart is a slow burner with no particular interest in clean resolution, and he's long produced engrossing work as a bandleader who lives by those principles.
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From moment to moment, these whirling, airborne arrangements call to mind the jazz bandleader Maria Schneider, the modernist composer Benjamin Britten and the maximalist film scorer Hans Zimmer.
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The New Vanguard The Grammy-winning bandleader and director of Berklee's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice is releasing the first album by her newest group, Social Science.
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Both are in their early 30s, but Mr. Peterson first met them in Boston during their conservatory years, which puts him in the position of a bandleader-mentor.
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Among the artists performing, across three BRIC House spaces, are the veteran pianist-composer-bandleader Eddie Palmieri, with his Latin Jazz Septet, and the alto saxophonist Terrace Martin.
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Before Lenny Abrahamson made his film "Room," he directed this movie about the bandleader of an experimental musical group who wears a papier-mâché mask over his head.
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Felten — a bandleader and writer based in Washington — explained to me that Ram had a legal dispute with Kent and Gannon in the 1940s about whose came first.
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Mr. McBride, the bassist, bandleader and composer, holds fast to a mood of generous bonhomie with his trio, which recently released a live album recorded in this room.
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Mr. Nguini, who performed worldwide with Mr. Simon and recorded extensively as both a studio musician and a bandleader, was a nimble, adaptable guitarist with a quicksilver tone.
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In the 1970s the Nigerian bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti forged the socially conscious funk called Afrobeat, not to be confused with the current African electronic rhythms called Afrobeats.
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A founding artist of the trendy electronic music label Ghostly International, Dear is better known as a bandleader, producer and D.J. whose work is steeped in Detroit techno.
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He'll make his debut as a bandleader at the Village Vanguard with the same group, featuring Gary Versace on piano, Drew Gress on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums.
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Other favorite tunes include "Cheek to Cheek" by Fred Astaire and "White Cliffs of Dover" by Vera Lynn, while a medley by American bandleader Lester Lann is also included.
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" After a performance from Jon Batiste, the bandleader from "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," the gala concluded with subdued dancing to jovial songs like "Cheerleader" and "Get Lucky.
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" The relatively loose atmosphere led the bandleader Peter Duchin to later characterize the ball as having "closed an era of elegant exclusiveness and ushered in another of media madness.
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Critic's Notebook Henry Threadgill, who on Monday was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize for music, is a composer and bandleader of intense, unyielding originality, nobody's idea of a compromise.
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Despite all the dabbling in other sounds, whims, and moods, Wilco have always been consistently themselves thanks to bandleader and frontman Jeff Tweedy's affecting, humane, and sometimes cryptic songwriting.
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CHILDISH GAMBINO Donald Glover has been a lot of things this decade: a joke writer, a joke rapper, an Emmy-winning television auteur ("Atlanta"), a Grammy-nominated funk bandleader.
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This trio features Panagiotis Andreou on bass, Justin Tyson on drums and Jason Lindner, its de facto bandleader, playing keyboards and effects as if he's navigating an intergalactic pod.
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" In an Instagram post, Questlove, the Roots' drummer and bandleader, wrote that Mr. Chancler's drumming on "Billie Jean" was "timeless like a tuxedo" and "literally gives MJ his DNA.
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Musicians who have been with him since the 1970s — Nigel Olsson on drums; Ray Cooper on percussion; and his bandleader, Davey Johnstone, on guitar — easily execute their longtime parts.
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Leon Russell, the longhaired, scratchy-voiced pianist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader who moved from playing countless recording sessions to making hits on his own, died on Sunday in Nashville.
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Like a capable bandleader or stage illusionist, Mr. Chazelle knows how to structure a set, to slacken the pace at times in order to build toward a big finish.
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On Friday, Rebirth will share the bill with Erik Deutsch, a pianist and bandleader who plays a kind of jam-band music not far from the sound of Galactic.
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" Several months ago, Mr. Armisen, the comedian and bandleader on NBC's "Late Night With Seth Meyers," was in Bogotá, Colombia, working on his other other TV series, "Documentary Now!
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James Dapogny, a jazz pianist, bandleader and musicologist who was instrumental in solidifying Jelly Roll Morton's place in the jazz pantheon, died on March 6 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and crossover star Kamasi Washington upended the G.O.O.D Music-led brevity drive last week, releasing a typically ambitious and eclectic 144-minute double album called Heaven & Earth.
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Other jazz musicians such as Michael League, the bandleader of Snarky Puppy, and Robert Glasper, a pianist, believe that the current movement is giving jazz a shot in the arm.
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But Mr. Vazquez's work as a bandleader, pushing post-Coltrane jazz and Puerto Rican traditional rhythm to the front of a gnashing ensemble sound, deserves all the recognition it gets.
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Professor Wallace was born in Queens to a bandleader father, spent his early childhood in San Francisco and then returned to New York City and Nassau County as a teenager.
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Although Goodman earned that nickname as a great clarinetist and bandleader, he was also a pioneer in racially integrating musical performance, tapping African-American players as early as the 1930s.
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Since then she has established herself as a belter of clatteringly rhythmic, galvanizing songs about love, resistance and African identity (typically sung in Xhosa) — as well as a thrilling bandleader.
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Bruce Hampton, a singer, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader known for his energetic, eccentric style and widely regarded as the granddaddy of the jam-band scene, died on Monday in Atlanta.
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MARA ROSENBLOOM QUARTET, "Songs From the Ground" (Fresh Sound, 2013) The bandleader edges closer to the fore here, offering a handful of pert, tuneful originals with more space to improvise.
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Set in 1945, it stars Corey Cott as an ambitious bandleader and Laura Osnes as a war widow with a golden voice, with songs by Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor.
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He studied at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po. After completing his military service, he remained in Paris, living on a houseboat on the Seine with the future bandleader Peter Duchin.
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And guitarist-singer Gary Clark Jr. and "Late Show" bandleader Jon Batiste will pay tribute to rock 'n' roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, who both died in 2017.
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Already she was the author of three recordings as a jazz bandleader, had played on dozens of other people's albums as a session musician and was touring around the world.
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Already she was the author of three recordings as a jazz bandleader, had played on dozens of other people's albums as a session musician and was touring around the world.
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Mr. White, who had formative experience in the vanguard of African-American art music, brought the full spectrum of those interests to the table as a tunesmith, bandleader, producer and singer.
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Only after years of trying to make it as both a solo artist and a bandleader did he discover that he could use his dusty fingers to get ahold of cash.
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And in between his job with the Boss, the 66-year-old drummer managed to hold down a 17-year post as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien's late night talk show.
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Until now he's spent his career collaborating, doing a stint with the Dirty Projectors a decade and a half before bandleader David Longstreth turned the project into a personal journal entry.
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For Stew, the singer/songwriter/bandleader who won a Tony in 2008 for the book of his maiden theatrical effort, "Passing Strange," the music is always the play, and vice versa.
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As a bandleader he was responsible for some of the earliest stirrings of jazz fusion, in the 1960s, and has since mentored artists including the guitarists Pat Metheny and Julian Lage.
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Then there's an impromptu jam session with Glover and Late Late Show bandleader Reggie Watts as Watts lays down a partially a capella funk beat for Glover to improvise over vocally.
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As bandleader of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the multi-instrumentalist comes up with perfect tunes to introduce guests, to complement Colbert's jokes, and to keep the audience hyped up.
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He's still building his track record as a composer-bandleader, but "Rise of Orion" makes a compelling argument, featuring a trio with Yasushi Nakamura on bass and Jon Irabagon on saxophones.
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But over a nearly 50-year career as a bandleader, he also released more than a dozen albums under his own name, spotlighting his eloquent playing in a range of contexts.
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This pianist and bandleader on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" has a new album out, "Hollywood Africans," a solo effort with a radio-ready finish and plenty of historical affinities.
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Sonny Fortune, a saxophonist whose incandescent improvisations made him an essential member of bands led by some of jazz's most illustrious figures as well as a respected bandleader, died on Oct.
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After the commercial and critical disappointment of Gonzalez's 2016 release—Junk—and its subsequent tour, the bandleader needed a break so he could figure out what exactly was next for M83.
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A century ago, a British regimental bandleader looked poised to lead his men in some chipper air, with no more audience than the ghosts of the devastated French town of Péronne.
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At 77, he often appears nowadays as a bandleader, funneling his decades of broad-ranging experience into a style that's firmly rooted in straight-ahead jazz but deeply flexible and funky.
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Back in 2011, on the eve of huge farewell Madison Square Garden shows, de facto bandleader James Murphy seemed to be content with the idea of becoming the Brian Eno of Williamsburg.
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Before he could begin "Blue Velvet," Hef served up a This Is Your Life-style surprise by bringing out Mitch Miller, the bandleader who first signed him to Columbia Records in 1950.
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Janka Nabay, a singer, songwriter and bandleader from Sierra Leone who modernized an ancient tradition called bubu and carried it worldwide, died on Monday in the Kambia District in northern Sierra Leone.
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"It's been really fun to have this time with them," says Evans, who also tours alongside her sister and background vocalist Lesley Evans Lyons and her brother and longtime bandleader Matt Evans.
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Mr. McBride, a bassist and composer-bandleader with a muscular approach — and, as of last week, a five-time Grammy winner — leads his big band, which won him one of those awards.
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Sykes, 52, opted for the most clever hiding spot: in plain sight, by taking the seat of the show's bandleader and announcer Reggie Watts at the keyboard, right across from Corden himself.
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As Vega recalls, he told bandleader George Clinton the remix needed a "party-crowd feel," to which Clinton responded by gathering over 30 people in the studio and recording the festive atmosphere.
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He appears with a pair of guests in this brief run: first the trumpeter Randy Brecker, a longtime collaborator (Tuesday), and then his wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi, a celebrated pianist, composer and bandleader.
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A lot of activity often happens at once in McBride's ensemble: spitfire soloing from the saxophones and brass; calisthenic bowed-bass workouts from the bandleader; sprightly, charging momentum from the rhythm section.
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Iyer brought his own keyboard, and when the bandleader learned that he lived across the street he started paying Iyer forty dollars to bring the keyboard and play in the house band.
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The drummer Matt Wilson and the pianist Helen Sung will collaborate on a double-feature titled "Jazz Meets Poetry" on April 31-May 1, with each bandleader presenting a poetry-driven project.
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In 225 he scored his biggest hit with an amped up version of "Blueberry Hill," an old musical chestnut that had been popularized by the swing bandleader Glenn Miller over a decade earlier.
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His chosen path as a bandleader builds on the mid-'60s terrain of the John Coltrane Quartet, and there'll be a typical amount of slashing polyrhythm and modal expedition in this weekend run.
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If the festival's paradigm is family, the Philadelphia-based Sun Ra Arkestra would seem to represent the original family, long after the death of Sun Ra, its pianist, composer and bandleader, in 1993.
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"She is a strong and inspiring bandleader, a brilliant soloist with a unique, often quirky approach and a beautiful guitar tone that reaches back to tradition," he wrote in an email this week.
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Mr. Costanzo, after stints with Stan Kenton, Cole and other prominent artists, became a bandleader himself, recording albums across a half-century, some of them employing his nickname, Mr. Bongo, in the title.
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After the studio audience voted the Skeleton as their least favorite of the six performers, he was unmasked and revealed to be David Letterman's former bandleader and Blues Brothers co-creator Paul Shaffer.
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She sang bluntly about sex on her own terms, demanding satisfaction with feral yowls and rasps, her voice slicing across the grooves that she wrote and honed as her own bandleader and producer.
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Mr. Contino started playing his father's accordion and learned so well, and so quickly, that at 803 he won $280,227 in a contest staged by the popular bandleader and radio star Horace Heidt.
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This week is the 40-year-old saxophonist's debut as a bandleader at the Village Vanguard, where he's joined by Aaron Parks on piano, Ben Street on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums.
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Mr. Morgan doesn't usually perform as a bandleader, but at iBeam, he played a solo set that lasted close to an hour before joining the Emi Makabe Quartet for the night's latter portion.
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Dan Hicks, a singer, songwriter and bandleader who attracted a devoted following with music that was defiantly unfashionable, proudly eccentric and foot-tappingly catchy, died on Saturday at his home in Mill Valley, Calif.
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O'Farrill is the scion of musical royalty (his grandfather Chico was, and his father, Arturo, still is, a major Latin-jazz bandleader), but in the last few years he has thoroughly outrun their shadow.
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So, it's a joy to hear not only that old sound again, but also bandleader Sam Rosenthal adding new elements and colors to his arsenal — there are even a couple of effective Moog workouts!
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"Seleno brought people together with his music," said David Lee Jones, 59, a veteran alto saxophonist who played with Mr. Clarke for 27 years and who now fills his old mentor's shoes as bandleader.
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With Mr. Visconti as bandleader and bass player, and Woody Woodmansey — who played on Bowie albums from 1970 to 1973 — on drums, the band was most at home in Mr. Bowie's glam-rock era.
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The trumpeter Adam O'Farrill is 21 and probably well acquainted with this pressure as a son of Arturo O'Farrill, the Cuban pianist, composer-arranger and torch-bearing bandleader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
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It's disheartening to watch the ostensible bandleader struggle in isolation through a large band's performance, and calls into question whether we're here to celebrate, exploit, or just sort of grimly acknowledge his towering legacy.
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A frequent face in the Slope Lounge audience is Darcy James Argue, a bandleader whose Secret Society — a large ensemble with a dark-hued, rock-inflected sound — is now renowned in the jazz world.
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Louis Armstrong shakes hands with EJ Harris while receiving an award from the National Swing Club of America, alongside (from left) bandleader Joe Springer, pianist Duke Ellington, and WMCA radio's Lee Grant, circa 1935.
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The answer OTIS is a honey pot for elevator puns and references to more well-known musicians, so we were pleased to have in the puzzle the influential performer, composer and bandleader Johnny Otis.
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The exhibition includes the album cover of "The Big Break — La Gran Fuga," a 1970 album by Mr. Colón, a bandleader whose songs have reached into politics for decades, with the singer Hector Lavoe.
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The saxophonist and bandleader Kamasi Washington is among the latest artist to inspire these discussions, with his brash 22015-piece ensemble that favors funky, hip-swiveling grooves juxtaposed with lush strings and choral arrangements.
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Reggie Watts, bandleader for "The Late Late Show With James Corden" and a longtime staple of the alternative comedy scene, also cited the 2017 closing of the Cinefamily movie theater, where Watts was a regular.
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Sadly, bandleader Mélomé Clément who formed the original lineup in 1968 passed away in 2012, but the Poly-Rhythm torch is still being carried by singers Vincent Ahehehinnou and Loko Pierre, bass player Gustave Bentho.
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And on most evenings, Watts, who serves as the program's bandleader, is given the brief opportunity to pose one question to Corden's guests, most of whom are unassuming celebrities eager to promote their latest project.
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Both artists will be celebrated in a concert packed with guests, like the John Mayer Trio, the pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, the pianist and bandleader Jon Batiste and the actor (and singer) Bruce Willis.
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Mr. Palmieri's 12-piece group is at its core a dance band, but it's also an improviser's paradise — expert at cutting open swaths of terrain in support of brilliant, idiosyncratic soloists, like the bandleader himself.
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He has spent over two decades stubbornly committed to his own vision as a musician and community leader, but he's never been fully accepted as a marquee bandleader, perhaps because of his proudly unpretentious persona.
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Dave Bartholomew, the producer, arranger, composer, trumpet player and bandleader who had a major hand in the shaping of New Orleans rhythm and blues and early rock 'n' roll, died on Sunday in New Orleans.
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Void Pacific Choir bandleader Moby said listening to vinyl is like the love between mother and child in a recent panel discussion alongside Jean-Michel Jarre, Julia Holter, Little Boots, Hans Zimmer, and Nic Harcourt.
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The veteran boogie R&B musician and bandleader headlines this tribute to his hometown's sacred day, with a revolving cast of funk and jazz groups, including one ensemble that has, wondrously, named itself Empire Strikes Brass.
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Mr. Lovano, one of Coltrane's many inheritors on tenor and soprano saxophone, had put together a dream team for the occasion, including Ravi Coltrane — John's son, a serious saxophonist, bandleader and composer in his own right.
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The M Blash-directed clip follows Nowak, played by bandleader Katie Stelmanis, as she wanders through the city in her NASA jumpsuit, before purchasing a gun and a wig, and ending at a strobe-lit bar.
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Mr. Shaffer, who spent 30 years as keyboardist, bandleader and partner to David Letterman on NBC's "Late Night" and CBS's "Late Show," will interview the performing artists and share his own stories from the club's history.
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Now 77, he remains defined by his sideman work, though his ambitious works as a bandleader and composer has helped connect anarchic avant-gardism with a vast historical family of music from America, Europe and Africa.
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Performers will include Blanchard's quintet, the E-Collective; the breakout New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas; the pianist and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" bandleader Jon Batiste; and members of the RAREdancework performance group.
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JON CARAMANICA Linda May Han Oh often performs in the imposing jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas's ensemble, but she's on pace to become something rare in jazz: a bassist known primarily for her work as a bandleader.
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But the story of Mr. Tyner, who died on Friday, is also the story of a bandleader and composer whose granite style remained intact even as he tracked the music's developments, from bebop into free jazz.
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In this performance, Mr. Ribot, a versatile musician who has released albums in genres including jazz, Cuban son and avant-garde rock, will join his party band in playing music dedicated to the Cuban bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez.
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We've brought you a typically ebullient new song from that record, "This Is the World of Theatre," and we also got the chance to have a chat with New Pornos bandleader Carl Newman about the new record.
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DeJohnette, who turns 75 this year, boasts an extensive resume that includes work in groups with Miles Davis, Bill Evans, a long-running trio with Keith Jarrett and Gary Peacock and his own work as a bandleader.
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With "Moving Still," he furthers his case as a composer-bandleader, exploring the possibilities of a subtle, weblike counterpoint with the pianist Matt Mitchell, the guitarist Miles Okazaki, the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Craig Weinrib.
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Many of the Democratic Republic of Congo's most prominent musicians relocated to Europe to avoid the fallout from the nation's civil war, but the bandleader Jupiter Bokondji has maintained his home base in Kinshasa, the capital city.
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In the middle of the 27th century, Manhattan's Palladium Ballroom was the cradle of Latin-music innovation in the United States, and its most esteemed statesman was Francisco Grillo, the singer, percussionist and bandleader known as Machito.
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Fans of the bandleader Maria Schneider, the indie-rocker Sufjan Stevens, the composer Olivier Messiaen and a lot in between should check out this 1970-piece big band, led by the two young composers Seguine and Baker.
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Neil Armstrong, his crew mate, who first put human footprints on the moon on that mission, requested the 1947 album "Music Out of the Moon," on which the bandleader Les Baxter played music written by Harry Revel.
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Neil Armstrong, his crew mate, who first put human footprints on the moon on that mission, requested the 1947 album "Music Out of the Moon," on which the bandleader Les Baxter played music written by Harry Revel.
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Not that it mattered, as the interviews were cut up in editing, they were made to look like flummoxed and often psychotic fools, locked in an antagonistic back-and-forth with the erstwhile ghost and his Mantis bandleader.
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Wendy (guitar) and Lisa (keyboards) -- the most prominent members of The Revolution -- were at LAX Sunday morning, on their way to Minnesota ... and revealed plans for the band to get back together to honor their friend and bandleader.
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Decades together have fostered musical telepathy of the highest order — guitarist and bandleader Davey Johnstone has been with John since 1972, virtuoso percussionist Ray Cooper since '72, and Nigel Olsson since the first US tour dates in 1970.
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I heard a story told by David Letterman's old bandleader about producing a performance that Sammy Davis Jr. was going to sing to and wanting him to hear the arrangement of the song before he performed the song.
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He appears at the 34th New York Salsa Festival, at Barclays Center on June 9, in a lineup that also features Andy Montañez, Tito Nieves, the Venezuela-bred bandleader Oscar D'León, and the Colombian powerhouse band Grupo Niche.
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Mr. Lederer is a jazz musician of far-reaching experience, an avant-garde wailer who has also logged countless hours with the salsa bandleader Jimmy Bosch, and in the fondly remembered house band at Showman's Cafe in Harlem.
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Sunday Routine Between leading impromptu street parades, performing as the bandleader on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" and fulfilling his duties as an artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Jon Batiste is busy enough.
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After exclusion from promoters—unwilling to book Lewis because they thought it would be a solo show—the bandleader once again added "The Honeybears" back to his name, and got to work on the band's fifth LP, Backlash.
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Mr. Watts, with his unruly mop of hair and pants often short enough to reveal socks, is best known as the bandleader on "The Late Late Show With James Corden," where audiences get snippets of his surreal sensibility.
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When he was 19, he moved back to Los Angeles, where he met the pianist and bandleader Horace Tapscott and became affiliated with the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension, Mr. Tapscott's Pan-African alliance of innovators.
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But the energy had hardly been slack before then: The bandleader Ronald Polo sang clearly and forcefully, playing hand percussion and egging on his nine bandmates as they clopped through his original compositions and arrangements of traditional songs.
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To that end, the performances in the coming week feature artists such as the jazz pianist and bandleader Jon Batiste, the rappers Smino and Rapsody, the avant-pop cellist Kelsey Lu and the R&B singer Emily King.
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Bougerol and the group's co-founder and bandleader, Evan Palazzo, got in touch with Cumming through their producer, Eli Wolf, who reached out about a collaboration only to find that Cumming was already a fan of the band's work.
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JOHN BEASLEY'S MONK'ESTRA (through Sunday) John Beasley is a pianist and bandleader accustomed to overseeing a lot of moving parts: He recently did an excellent job as musical director for the International Jazz Day Concert at the White House.
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Behind her modest tone and her obvious Australian accent, there was always a lyricist who saw both pathos and absurdity in her detailed, self-deprecating narratives of everyday life, and a guitarist and bandleader who summoned wordless emotional crosscurrents.
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By the mid-223s Mr. Cohran had spent three years playing trumpet and cornet in the pioneering Sun Ra Arkestra, and was established as both a bandleader in his own right and a galvanizing force on the Chicago scene.
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The next year, Mr. Murray recorded his first album as a bandleader, "Sonny's Time Now," the first of only three recordings to be released on Jihad, a label run by Amiri Baraka (who was then known as LeRoi Jones).
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His popular singles "Strawberry Letter 28" (recorded by the Brothers Johnson) and "Inspiration Information" — as well as stellar R&B genes from his father, the bandleader pioneer Johnny Otis — kept him a strong solo draw for most of the decade.
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Corden, now 38, was surprised by his CBS bandleader Reggie Watts when he was presented a personalized video complete with messages from his parents, his sisters, Mark Noble (his favorite soccer player), O-Town (his favorite band) – and Montell Jordan.
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Guitarist Derek Trucks, a former member of the Allman Brothers Band and bandleader of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, will be a part of the celebration alongside Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker and Charles Kelley to honor Allman's impact on American music.
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There's beautiful photos of the band's early beginnings in San Francisco, lovingly explaining how bandleader Jerry Garcia's initial obsession with bluegrass and country got funneled through the rabbit hole of the nascent San Francisco scene to create their unique sound.
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Mr. Gilmour is the proud custodian of the sound of Pink Floyd, in which he was the guitarist, main lead singer and — after Roger Waters, the main songwriter and bassist before him, left the band in 1985 — the full-fledged bandleader.
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It also included the Latin Walk of Fame, which honors those who've influenced the Latin community, including the Cuban-American salsa singer Willy Chirino, the bandleader and percussionist of Puerto Rican heritage Tito Puente, and the Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán.
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After singing principal roles with opera companies throughout Italy, Ms. Doria returned to the United States, where she sang in the Radio City Music Hall chorus and toured as a soloist with the bandleader Fred Waring before joining the Met.
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Earlier this month, drummer, bandleader and vocalist Hugh Rabinovici announced that the band were changing their name to Leisure Centre, due to some recent feedback that their old name was culturally inappropriate for the way it used African-American Vernacular English.
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The sound blew out twice during the 50 minutes Zeal & Ardor was allotted, leaving Swiss-American bandleader Manuel Gagneux and his backing musicians to troubleshoot as best they could on a silent stage facing hundreds of expectant faces (no pressure, right?).
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Recently Moran has been exploring the work and legacy of James Reese Europe, an influential composer and bandleader in the early years of jazz whose military band, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, became a cause célèbre in Europe and at home.
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Critic's Notebook NEWPORT, R.I. — Christian McBride's big band had just finished a bustling rendition of "The Shade of the Cedar Tree" on the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival here on Saturday afternoon when the bandleader felt compelled to speak.
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So far, figure skating champ Johnny Weir, gamer Ninja, boxer Laila Ali, celebrity doctor Dr. Drew Pinsky, bandleader Paul Shaffer, comedian Sherri Shepherd, actress Raven-Simoné, Fashion Police alum Kelly Osbourne, and Grammy winner Patti LaBelle have all been unmasked.
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This movie, directed and produced by Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards, digs deeply enough into Mr. Giordano's world to convey the drudgery and headaches of being a bandleader: juggling personnel, scheduling, dealing with a musicians' union and lugging around instruments.
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Then I had to watch the bandleader like a hawk, for subtle cues — this tilt of the guitar means I solo, that slight bend of the knees means bring the dynamic down, this sudden jerk of the upper body means break.
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Though Mr. Cotton was probably most celebrated for his work in the employ of others, his career as a bandleader, and as a dynamic showman known to do back flips onstage, proved to have greater longevity, spanning nearly half a century.
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" The percussionist and bandleader Bobby Sanabria said in an interview that Mr. Valentin was "a true son of the South Bronx wherever he went," and that he "represented excellence as a musician through the flute in the world of jazz.
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From the kind of everyday New York life thing to celebrity profiles of Montgomery Clift, Faye Emerson, or the bandleader Guy Lombardo, what's nice is you get to see the range of lifestyles in New York City at the time.
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Mr. Martinez built his musical backbone in Santeria ceremonies and Havana watering holes, and his svelte playing on the congas and the sacred batá drum has made him a sought-after side musician, as well as a bandleader of growing renown.
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His father, a jazz pianist, was for a time the bandleader for "The Arsenio Hall Show," and his mother, the actress Polly Draper of "Thirtysomething" fame, starred in a production of "Buried Child" at Yale Repertory Theatre when she was her son's age.
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DJ, producer, and bandleader Matthew Dear has been heading towards the top of the techno game since he was straight out of the University of Michigan, helping to kick off the Ghostly International label, one of electronic music's most iconic and enduring imprints.
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Leslie Mandoki fled from Hungary during the Cold War and is an international award-winning jazz/rock musician, bandleader and producer who has written songs and worked for and with such performers as Lionel Ritchie, Ian Anderson, Phil Collins and Chaka Khan.
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Bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Pablo C. Ursusson (who moved to Germany several years ago, but carries on his homeland's autonomous tradition by squatting in Leipzig) also plays in the excellent German black metal band Antlers, so he knows a bit about darkness.
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Learning to sell a jazz standard is a bit like studying Yiddish or letterpress, but singers swear by Maye's workshops; Jon Batiste , the thirty-two-year-old bandleader of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," is among the musicians who have audited.
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New Orleans is the site of some of the film's most festive scenes, with Mr. Blacc and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" bandleader Jon Batiste walking in and around the city's French Quarter, and joining a second line, a brass band parade.
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It was there that he became a friend of Cab Calloway's, the famed bandleader of the Cotton Club; the two men became drinking buddies and regulars at the many speakeasies and jazz clubs that drew thousands of revelers to northern Manhattan during Prohibition.
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Mr. Goodson was the bandleader and saxophone player of the four-piece band, which had set up in a corner under a string of blue lights and a photograph of a smiling Malcolm X, opposite one of Barack Obama behind the bar.
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In January, 2008, he returned to Camp Pendleton for AITAF 's inaugural show, along with Ebert, Juilliard graduates including Laura Linney, and Jon Batiste, a jazz student from the music division (he is now the bandleader for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert").
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Woodlawn, a 400-acre cemetery in the Bronx that opened during the American Civil War in 1863, is the final resting place for such American legends as Ellington, trumpeter Miles Davis, bandleader Lionel Hampton, songster Irving Berlin and "Moby Dick" author Herman Melville.
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By Jeanine Basinger There's a particularly poignant scene in "Stormy Weather" (20063), one of the great all-black musicals made during the studio era, in which the bandleader Cab Calloway has his orchestra play the title song before a crowd of nightclub patrons.
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The record finds the young bandleader meditating on romance, personal growth and the travails of his native Baltimore; he will celebrate its release at Nublu with Corey Wallace on trombone, Marc Cary on piano, Jon Michel on bass and Curtis Nowosad on drums.nublu.
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People we've lost in 2016 After recording in the 19603s with a group of Los Angeles session musicians nicknamed the Wrecking Crew, Russell captured the public's attention as the top hat-wearing pianist and bandleader on Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" tour in 1970.
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As a bandleader and producer, he piles together deep synths, bass-rattling drum machines and ear-seizing samples; drawing on a vast range of influences from England, Africa and the Caribbean, he compiles a rich pastiche of electroacoustic textures, with a special composite power.
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Current performers had their moments—Pitbull closed the show out by, thankfully, being Pitbull, while Miguel's brief tribute to bandleader Greg Phillinganes, where he sang Michael Jackson's "She's Out of My Life," showed why he deserved the shine constantly given to The Weeknd's endless bummer.
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This trumpeter and bandleader uses the term "stretch music," not jazz, to describe his work; into it he pours the influence of contemporary Southern hip-hop, indie rock and music from indigenous societies he has studied across the globe, particularly Native American and West African.
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Written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb and popularized by the Four Vagabonds, the bandleader Kay Kyser and others, "Rosie the Riveter" captured a historical moment that helped sow the seeds of the women's movement of the last half of the 20th century.
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Annie Clark, the guitarist, singer, bandleader and contemporary rock visionary also known as St. Vincent, has spent the past decade upping the musical ante with each passing record, adding more synths, drum machines and pop gloss to what was initially a fairly stripped-down sound.
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Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 21959s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima, the ebullient, frenzied bandleader who became her husband, died on Saturday in Palm Springs, Calif.
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Starting in the 1960s, Mr. Mabern (pronounced MAY-burn) recorded more than two dozen albums as a bandleader, but he contributed to far more in bands led by luminaries like the trumpet player Lee Morgan, the guitarist Wes Montgomery and the vocalist Betty Carter.
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Brown was a notorious taskmaster as a bandleader, and he retained all the songwriting credit for the work his band did, meaning that as the hip-hop generation discovered Mr. Stubblefield's playing and used it as a backbone, he saw none of the financial rewards.
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A new musical, directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler ("Hamilton"), is jitterbugging onto Broadway: Set in 1945, it stars Corey Cott as an ambitious bandleader and Laura Osnes as a war widow with a golden voice, with songs by Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor.
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Los Angeles-based artist and bandleader of electronic rock veterans Mindless Self Indulgence, Jimmy Urine, has remixed Australian/Iranian duo VOWWS' single "Holy Youth" off their 2015 debut LP. The Great Sun featured appearances from synth pop pioneer Gary Numan as well as Swans' percussionist Thor Harris.
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Miguel (Jon Huertas) can finally relax — Bandleader Ben has emerged as the new villain/Jack cockblocker on This Is Us.Last night's episode of the NBC drama saw Ben (played by True Blood alum Sam Trammell) weaseling his way into Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Jack's Milo Ventimiglia) marriage.
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